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Jul 16, 2010

The Leak in the Gulf Has Stopped, But the Pipeline between Industry and Interior Still Flows

This is gross. Providing yet another example of how important it
is
to close the revolving door between the Interior Department and
industry, an industry advocacy group has just named a former Bureau of
Land Management (BLM) field manager to be their president.

The Times article also suggests that Henke just doesn't get it
when it comes
to the revolving door, quoting him as saying that, as president of the
industry trade group, he hopes he will be "afforded the opportunity to
sit at the
table with policy makers and legislators to describe the impact and the
role" his organization can play in "issue resolution." Presumably these
policymakers are the same people he got to
sit at the table with as a BLM regional manager.

All this of course raises questions about
whether the former regional office
manager was serving taxpayer interests when he was on the General
Schedule.

Comments

Why she had to get up here. We need something that such events can not occur. Law must be very harsh and for such crimes must be paid with their lives. Otherwise I will not repeat that these ecosystems support it. However golf is all destroyed. We have destroyed the environment we live. What next?

For what it's worth, a couple of the comments on the Farmington Daily Times's site:

He's been working for them for years, now it is official. It would be nice to know what the BLM inspector general found during his investigation of Henke's time at the agency.

From BLM (protecting the land & environment) to NMOGA (destroying the land & environment)...hmmm, brings up a few questions or maybe answers a few questions regarding O&G butchering compliances in the San Juan Basin.

Ha, working for NMOGA will be just like his last position at BLM working for the natural gas industry. Yeah, why did he resign from BLM?